Samuel bretzfield



(No Model.)

S. BRETZPIELD.

PLASTER.

Patented May 11, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BRETZFIELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,340, dated May 11, 1897.

Application filed February 16, 1897. Serial No. 623,608. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BRETZEIELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plasters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in plasters, and especially to that kind of plasters which are known as porous plasters and are composed of a resinous or rubber mixture spread on fabric or leather.

It is well known that it is quite painful and ditlicult to remove the plasters from the skin, especially after they have been applied for a greater length of time; and the object of my invention is to provide an improvement to the plasters by means of which such plasters can be removed almost instantly with the greatest ease and without causing pain and'in such a manner that none, or practically none, of the resinous or rubber plaster mass adheres to the skin.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, and in which like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a face viewof my improved plaster, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

The plaster consists of a sheet A of fabric or leather, with or Without perforations, on one side of which is spread a layer of resinous or like adhesive plaster mass, and on the plaster-layer a sheet B of muslin is placed loosely in the well-known manner, which sheet is torn off before the plaster is applied. A sheet O of muslin or other material is placed upon the other face of the sheet A to protect the clothing of the person using the plaster from being soiled bythe softening or melting resinous or like mass.

A cord D is placed across the plaster-face of the sheet A along the top edge and carried down along the side edges of the sheet A loosely and beyond said side edges to the bottom corners of the sheet, where the said cord is passed through the sheet A and through openings a in the sheet C, the edges of which openin gs are preferably protected by eyelets b.

`The cord extends down from the eyeleted apertures, and its ends are tied together, as at d.

When the plaster has been applied, the cord D depends from the bottom part of the plaster, as shown.

. Vhen the plaster is to be removed, it is only necessary to pull downward on the depending ends of the cords D, whereby the upper part of the cord is pulled down between the skin of the person and the plaster mass and detaches the latter from the skin, as the cord acts as-a blade.

The cord not only detaches the plaster from the skin, but also removes all the plaster mass from the skin, leaving the same almost as clean as if no plaster had been applied, and the plaster can be removed from the most inaccessible parts of the body by means of one hand and almost painlessly.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a plaster' of a detaching-cord, resting'on the plaster mass, at the top of the same, and passed through the bodysheet of the plaster, at the bottom of the same, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of February, 1897.

SAMUEL BRETZFIELD. W'itnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, PETER ALBEETINE. 

